1. ATP Paris Masters: Day 7 Sun, The Final 1.1 King of the ATP Tour Novak Djokovic, strolls past Andy Murray for record-breaking title. Novak makes history by winning his 6th Masters 1000 crown of 2015, after Indian Wells, Miami, Monte-Carlo, Rome and Shanghai. Most M1000 titles by any player in a season. Reached the finals…
1. ATP Paris Masters: Day 6 Sat, SFs Murray eases past Ferrer to reach Paris Final. Djokovic continues rampant streak, with 3 set victory over Wawrinka. 2. WTA Elite Trophy, Zhuhai: Day 5, SFs Venus trounces Vinci to cruise into Final. Pliskova follows suit with crushing win over Svitolina.
1. ATP Paris Masters: Day 4 Thu, 3rd rd 1.1 Nadal fights back from the brink of defeat to oust Anderson in 3 sets. 1.2 Isner stuns Federer in 3 to end his hot-form. 2. WTA Elite Trophy, Zhuhai: Day 3 Thu, results Group A: Venus bt Saisai Zheng: 4-6, 6-1, 6-1. Venus through to…
1. David Ferrer and Kei Nishikori complete line-up for Barclays ATP World Tour Finals. 2. WTA Elite Trophy, 2015: Zhuhai, China Inaugural tournament replacing Tournament of Champions, consisting of the top 11 players ( plus 1 wildcard) who didn’t qualify for the WTA Finals, ranked between 9-19 (10-26, this year due to Serena Williams withdrawing from the…
1. Race to Singapore over: 2015 WTA Finals field complete: Qualifiers- Halep, Muguruza, Sharapova, Kvitova, Radwanska, Kerber, Pennetta and Safarova. Alternates- 1st- Bacszinsky (withdrew due to knee injury suffered in Luxembourg) 1st alternate: Venus Williams. 2nd alternate: Carla Suarez- Navarro. Venus and Suarez-Navarro however have qualified for the inaugural WTA Elite Trophy in Zhuhai from…
Jo Wilfried Tsonga dashed Rafa Nadal’s hopes of reaching back to back finals in China, with a thrilling 3 set victory. The Frenchman hadn’t reached a Masters 1000 Final, since winning his only title at that level, in Toronto last year. He also hadn’t beaten Nadal in nearly 4 years, but produced a barrage of over…
Rafael Nadal produced arguably his best performance of 2015, with a demolition of Roland Garros Champion: Stan Wawrinka. A day after scoring his first victory over a top 10 player since May, Rafa was ruthlessly efficient against Wawrinka. Stan had beaten Nadal in their last 2 meetings, including at the Rome Masters this year. However the…
1. Nishikori fights back to win Washington Crown over John Isner. ATP Washington- Draw 2.Sloane Stephens finally gets over the hurdle to win 1st WTA Tour title, over Ana Pavlyuchenkova. WTA Washington- Draw 3. Kerber beats Karolina Pliskova again in Final, to win Stanford Title. Stanford -Draw 4. Andy Murray and Kim Sears expecting first…
Roger Federer was on cloud 9, actually cloud 8 on Sunday after winning an unprecedented 8th Halle title. The Swiss Maestro claimed the landmark title after beating fellow 30 something Andreas Seppi in straight sets. Roger was playing in the final of the Gerry Weber Open for the 10th time in 10 appearances at the event.…
The irrepressible Roger Federer moved into his 10th Halle Final, courtesy of a dogged straight sets win over Ivo Karlovic. Karlovic who hit a record 45 aces in his QF match with Tomas Berdych, typically engaged in his two favourite past-times- Aces and tie-breaks. Unfortunately for the Croatian giant, he lost both tie-breaks handily to…
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